Who remembers comic book character "Sarge Steel" with his steel fist and Luger?

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Bill_in_fl

Take another look at the text on the comic's cover I provided Sheepherder. It doesn't say Johnny Cloud was in the story entitled "The ship that fought in three wars". It says "Featuring Johnny Cloud the Navajo Ace".....(within another story in the same issue) and notice it says "ALSO the startling ship that fought in three wars".

You're right! I missed that! I see about a dozen on eBay; I'll bid on one of them!

An interesting thing, is there was an old early 1960's Twilight Zone t.v. episode very similar.... Anyone else remember that one?

Yep. Also, Ch 5 here ['Me-TV', Buffalo NY area] shows old Twilight Zone episodes and that one was on.

My neighborhood theater showed sci-fi & monster movies on Saturdays, "This Island Earth", "I Married A Monster From Outer Space", "The Thing From Another World", "Forgotten Planet", every monster known, the Stooges, etc. TV had "Our Gang", "The Young Rascals" [I think that was the name], and the famous local show "The Howdy Doody Show", which was a bunch of kinda-westerny marionettes and a 'Buffalo Bob' and a clown named Clarabelle. There is a great underground tape/reel of obscene out-takes of the marionettes engaged in sexual activity...I saw it once years ago; it was hilarious. Put together between takes on the set, when the puppeteers were bored and waiting for the scenery/props to be changed. Great stuff!

I don't recall the "Phantom" serials but I did follow him in the daily/Sunday comics. I especially liked the 'ancestors' storylines, a 1700's Phantom fighting pirates with the Phantom costume and two holstered flintlocks!

There was also a fanzine in the late 50's/early 60's called "Famous Monsters Of Filmland" put out by a fan who collected old publicity stills and published them in magazine form...Forest J. Ackerman was his name...Great fanzine; one of the first IIRC...

I had a Hubley cap gun once; it was the same time frame as the 'Fanner 50' but it was a top-break six-shooter. I wanted a Fanner 50 real bad, but my mother didn't know Hubley from Mattel and bought me the Hubley instead. All-zinc, shot some kind of caps, but the top-break and hinged barrel/cylinder were quite interesting. I've been trying to find it on eBay but no luck so far. Of course, back then I didn't want the Hubley, I wanted the Fanner. I cried. My mom was heartbroken.

[sheepherder]

OK, I have a copy of A-A-M-O-W #97 coming. Seller didn't indicate whether it was the original 1952 edition or the 1963 reprint, but shouldn't matter, except for the ads. IIRC, there was a big company selling novelties, toys, magic tricks, etc that advertised in comic books back then. I forget the name, but I used to order small stuff from them.

Haw! Grown men, sitting around talking about 'the good old days'!!!

Next we'll be sitting in rocking chairs with blankets on us!!!

[Bill_in_fl]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

OK, I have a copy of A-A-M-O-W #97 coming. Seller didn't indicate whether it was the original 1952 edition or the 1963 reprint, but shouldn't matter, except for the ads. IIRC, there was a big company selling novelties, toys, magic tricks, etc that advertised in comic books back then. I forget the name, but I used to order small stuff from them.

Haw! Grown men, sitting around talking about 'the good old days'!!!

Next we'll be sitting in rocking chairs with blankets on us!!!

Cool. Glad you found the one you wanted. Hey, nothing wrong with talking about the good ole days. Better days back then than the insanity of society today. Yeah, one day in the not too distant future, we WILL be sitting in our rocking chairs saying...."I'm cold", "I'm hungry", "What time is wheel of fortune coming on?" and driving the kids, grandkids and nursing home orderlies crazy. But we still have about 25 years before that happens.....if we last that long.

[Bill_in_fl]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

"The Howdy Doody Show", which was a bunch of kinda-westerny marionettes and a 'Buffalo Bob' and a clown named Clarabelle. There is a great underground tape/reel of obscene out-takes of the marionettes engaged in sexual activity...I saw it once years ago; it was hilarious. Put together between takes on the set, when the puppeteers were bored and waiting for the scenery/props to be changed. Great stuff!

I would luv to see that underground marionettes reel. That would be hilarious. There were three different actors who played Clarabelle the clown. The first actor to play Clarabelle was Bob Keeshan, who is even more famous as Captain Kangaroo. I used to be a limousine driver for Fancy Nancy limousines in Tampa, Fl back in '88 to '90 and drove a few stars. Joan Baez the folk singer and some football stars and Tone Loc the rapper (Wild Thing, Bust a move). But my most enjoyable fare was driving Bob Keeshan to a fundraiser he was doing in St Petersburg. He was so nice and I got to chat a bit with him on the drive and told him how I used to watch him and Mr Green Jeans and Mr Bear and Mr Moose and Grandfather clock when I was just a child, and he gave me a 8x10 picture of himself as Captain Kangaroo that he autographed specially to me. Sadly he's gone now.

Originally Posted by sheepherder

I don't recall the "Phantom" serials but I did follow him in the daily/Sunday comics. I especially liked the 'ancestors' storylines, a 1700's Phantom fighting pirates with the Phantom costume and two holstered flintlocks!

Oh yeah, those Phantom ancestor storylines were my favorites too. I liked how the Phantoms all created a glass front vignette booth inside the skull cave for each and every ancestor Phantom that existed and had their costume on a dummy along with their holsters and pistols and other artifacts. So the skull cave had a section that was like a museum to all the previous Phantoms. Yeah, those holstered flintlocks the original Phantom used to fight the pirates were cool. The premise of "The Ghost who walks" where when one Phantom died, his son or someone took his place and with him wearing a mask, that's why the natives called him...."The Ghost who walks" because they thought he was immortal.

Originally Posted by sheepherder

I had a Hubley cap gun once; it was the same time frame as the 'Fanner 50' but it was a top-break six-shooter. I wanted a Fanner 50 real bad, but my mother didn't know Hubley from Mattel and bought me the Hubley instead. All-zinc, shot some kind of caps, but the top-break and hinged barrel/cylinder were quite interesting. I've been trying to find it on eBay but no luck so far. Of course, back then I didn't want the Hubley, I wanted the Fanner. I cried. My mom was heartbroken.

There were two models of that top break Hubley. Mine had wide top hammers that were smooth and very suitable for fanning and were called the Hubley Colt .38 There is another Hubley that is almost exactly the same and except for the hammer practically indistinguishable from the Colt .38. Same frame only with different model name on it, same cylinder same everything except the hammer is different and is more narrow on top and serrated. I think that more narrow and serrated hammer model was called "The Texan" or something with Texas or Texan in it. Those were the only two Hubley topbreaks that I know of. So Sheepherder, you either had the Hubley "Colt .38" with the wide top flat hammers (like I had), or the more narrow top hammer that was serrated and called "The Texan" or something very similar. Can you remember if the top of your hammer was wide and flat or more narrow and serrated?


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[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Bill_in_fl

There were two models of that top break Hubley....Can you remember if the top of your hammer was wide and flat or more narrow and serrated?.

No, I don't recall the hammer...Mostly just the top "T"-bar for the break...It was pretty solid. I *think* it may have had 'steer' grips, maybe cream w/black steer head...???...

That Howdy-Doody gag reel might be on YouTube by now...

[Bill_in_fl]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

No, I don't recall the hammer...Mostly just the top "T"-bar for the break...It was pretty solid. I *think* it may have had 'steer' grips, maybe cream w/black steer head...???...

That Howdy-Doody gag reel might be on YouTube by now...

I've seen them with cream colored grips with black long horn steer heads on the grips, so that sounds correct.

Mine were all one color of blue turquoise with long horn steer heads on the grips. Maybe if you see the wide smooth top hammer vs the more narrow top serrated hammer, it would jog your memory. I've seen both on e bay, but have had a hard time finding the wide smooth top hammer (Hubley .38 Colt) with the blue turquoise steer head grips. Also on my holsters, there was a gold imprinted rearing Stallion just like on a Colt, with ".38 Colt" imprinted under the rearing Stallion. On ebay, try typing in Hubley .38 Colt and also Hubley Texan (more narrow serrated hammer otherwise the same except for the model markings on the gun), and pay particular attention to the hammers in the pics. Might jog the ole memory.



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